Barron's Roundtable, Part 1 -- The Good Bad and Ugly: A Guide to 2014

The year ahead presents challenges as well as investment opportunities, say our 10 Roundtable experts.

We wish we could share the official view of the Barron's Roundtable regarding the economy and markets in 2014. But it was impossible to find much common ground this year among our passionate, principled, and occasionally pugilistic panelists, whether the discussion veered toward interest rates, stock prices, GDP, or lunch.